Question

How do I increase my milk supply at 6 Months?

My son was born 8 weeks early so I did a LOT of pumping (65 oz a day) at the begining and froze all the extra. After I went back to work my milk supply dropped way down, I just couldn't pump as much as often as I needed to. I also got lazy with having such a frozen supply. Now I'm about to run out of the frozen stash and I want to get my suppy back up. I have a new job which I can as often as needed. Does anyone know if Fenugreek, the Mother's milk teas or other herbal remedies will work at 6 months vs. the first few weeks? Or is it time to buy some formula?

Fenugreek tea. You can find it where Indian foods or spices are sold. Prepare the seeds as an infusion and drink it like any other tea. I have seen fenugreek pills at health shops too. I didn't have enough milk in the first months of BF and it helped me to exclusively BF for 14 months.

One of the things you can try is eating cornmeal porriage, Barley porriage or a guinness which also has barley in it as well (Note: if you are going to drink a guinness I suggest that you do it at the end of your day, before bed, but after your last pump of the night). Being that barley porriage is hard to come by unless you go to a west indian supermarket. Go to Wal-Mart and get the Heinz Barley Porriage and mix that with the cornmeal porriage. Have a bowl once a day (morning) and a guinness beer one time for the week. Repeat the following week and by the end of the second week you should see a change in your milk supply as I did. If that doesn't work there is always "Ran-Domperidone" which you would have to get from your doctor.

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